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China welcomes new Kazakh leader, an 'old friend'
Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)
Nazarbayev, the only leader an independent Kazakhstan has ever known, shocked the nation on Tuesday with his resignation after nearly three decades in power. "C...
China backs Pakistan on terrorism measures
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
An attack on Indian-administered Kashmir last month killed 40 Indian security personnel and was claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group. "China commends Paki...
Pakistani airspace restrictions keep routes closed, carriers off balance
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
The continued constraints come weeks after Pakistani authorities said they had fully reopened the country's airspace after it was closed for days following clas...
Taliban capture 58 Afghan security forces: defence ministry
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
The ministry statement came after reports of days of fighting in Bala Marghab district of Badghis province, in northwestern Afghanistan near the border with Tur...
Two Iraqi troops killed in rare clashes with PKK: army
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
The PKK, seen as a "terrorist" group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984. It has r...
China says nearly 13,000 'terrorists' arrested in Xinjiang
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has come under international criticism over its policies in the region, where as many as one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are bein...
Iraqi Kurds commemorate Halabja massacre
Mar 16, 2019 (AFP)
On March 16, 1988, Saddam's forces unleashed a cocktail of deadly gases on the northern farming community, captured a day before by Kurdish fighters who had sid...
US to deny visas to ICC members probing US troops in Afghanistan
Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington was prepared to take further steps, including economic sanctions, if the war crimes court goes ahead with any pro...
Campuses not camps: China defends Xinjiang policies at UN
Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)
China's vice foreign minister Le Yucheng, the head of a delegation speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, slammed "ill-intentioned accusations a...
Iraq opens first IS mass grave in Yazidi region
Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped IS and became an outspoken advocate for her community, attended the ceremony in her home village of K...
Afghan airstrikes kill 31 militants: officials
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
The strikes were carried out in Ghazni province late Wednesday, where the defence ministry said they targeted a "base" belonging to the militants. "Qari Aref, o...
Pakistan, India hold 'positive' talks on Sikh visits
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
Officials from the two countries met in Attari, India, to discuss the details of an agreement that would allow Indian Sikhs to visit a shrine to their religion'...
US, Kabul ties tense over Taliban talks
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
The advisor, Hamdullah Mohib, took particular aim at US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and his personal "ambitions" in Afghanistan. "We don't know what's going on. We d...
Yazidi doctor soldiers on in mental battle against IS
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
"They tell me that wherever they go, they have pain. They can never forget what happened," said Nagham Hasan, a 41-year-old gynaecologist from the Yazidi town o...
Afghan soldiers killed in 'friendly fire' gunfight, US airstrike
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
The incident occurred Wednesday when a US and Afghan patrol came under fire near an Afghan army post on the outskirts of Tarin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan provi...
China delays UN bid to blacklist JeM leader as terrorist
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
It was the fourth time that the UN Security Council was considering a request to put Masood Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), on the UN sanctions blackli...
US urges Muslim nations to condemn China's Xinjiang abuses
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
"We are, I can say, disappointed about the lack of response from members of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), and the lack of outspoken concern," s...
Xinjiang camps will 'gradually' disappear: China
Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic minorities are being held in detention centres in Xinjiang, according to estimates cited by a UN panel...
Kazakhstan releases Xinjiang rights activist to house arrest
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
Serikjan Bilash, who has led an awareness drive centred on ethnic Kazakh victims of China's crackdown in the region, was arrested in Kazakhstan's largest city, ...
Kazakh rights defender arrested over Xinjiang activism
Mar 10, 2019 (AFP)
Serikjan Bilash, who has led a loud awareness drive centred on ethnic Kazakh victims of China's crackdown in the region, was arrested in Kazakhstan's largest ci...
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